{"id":1128,"date":"2008-01-23T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/la-times-writer-slams-revisionist-historian\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:26:17","slug":"la-times-writer-slams-revisionist-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"LA Times Writer Slams Revisionist Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/books\/cl-et-rutten23jan23,0,244700.story?track=rss\">LA Times Article<\/a><br \/>\nIn his review of &#8216;God&#8217;s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215&#8217; by David Levering Lewis,Tim Rutten slaps around the revisionist history of the book so well, you&#8217;d never think he wrote for the LA Times.<br \/>\nMoney shot:<br \/>\n<strong>In other words, the West would be better off if it had been incorporated into an all-conquering Islamic empire in the early Middle Ages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Still, it&#8217;s fair to wonder why, if that&#8217;s true, the West ended up with the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the Scientific Revolution and the Islamic world got chronic underdevelopment, a pervasive religious obscurantism, Al Qaeda and the trust fund states of the Arabian peninsula? It&#8217;s also fair to point out that both the Muslim philosopher Averro\u00c3\u00abs and the Jewish philosopher-physician Maimonides were sent fleeing for their lives by Islamic fundamentalists and not the Christian Reconquista.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wow. A writer for an unabashedly liberal newspaper opines that Islam might not be the &#8220;Religion of Peace and Scholars&#8221; as we have been told again and again, even by people who damn well know better&#8230; That is, to say the least, unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times Article In his review of &#8216;God&#8217;s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215&#8217; &hellip; <a title=\"LA Times Writer Slams Revisionist Historian\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1128\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LA Times Writer Slams Revisionist Historian<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}